Word: experts
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...trial, the shipyard presented an expert witness who asserted that such depictions would not offend the "average woman." Judge Melton was not persuaded. Among other things, he said, females in a "sexually hostile" workplace are a captive audience for pornography and are usually reluctant to challenge superiors and colleagues over the issue. "Nobody's stopping the men at Jacksonville Shipyards from reading pornography," says Alison Wetherfield, an attorney with the women's advocacy group that represented Robinson. "They're just saying, 'You can't do it here, boys...
...Indian subcontinent four to five degrees, disrupting the monsoon rains that are essential to crops for the nations of that area. "If this goes on until spring and summer, it will be a direct threat to their food supply, which is already marginal," says Anne Ehrlich, a Sierra Club expert...
...against the war? Deter pilots from their missions? Raise doubts about the fortitude and courage of the allied fighting forces? If so, Saddam had grossly miscalculated once again. The clumsy propaganda seemed only to harden civilian and military resolve that Saddam must be stopped. Western viewers did not need expert commentary to conclude that the statements made by 13 captured pilots -- eight Americans, two Britons, two Italians and one Kuwaiti -- had been brutally coerced, in bald violation of the Geneva Conventions' provisions on the treatment of prisoners...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, Dillon professor of the civilization of France, for example, has written editorials on the topic for publications like the The New York Review of Books and The Boston Globe. While he is no Middle East expert, he says he has chosen to write because it involves American foreign policy--a topic he teaches...
...while chances of the draft were called slim by almost every expert contacted, several spelled out scenarios in which it could become a reality...